Post subject: Re: Warning: if you try sliding hook you will never go back.

Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 2:42 pm

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Easy to retrofit a harness with a slider. Get appropriate line and tie it off (bowline knot) to opposite sides of your harness with enough slack. Get a sufficiently large screw pin shackle which will slide along the line. Total cost...less than $10. Why spend more if you just want to try it?

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Post subject: Re: Warning: if you try sliding hook you will never go back.

Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 3:12 pm

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H53Driver wrote:

Easy to retrofit a harness with a slider. Get appropriate line and tie it off (bowline knot) to opposite sides of your harness with enough slack. Get a sufficiently large screw pin shackle which will slide along the line. Total cost...less than $10. Why spend more if you just want to try it.

Check- did this- sawed off the hook on a spreaderbar and it works good- but would like to find a smoother slider- Mine " sticks" a little and i have to give it a nudge by twisting body. I´m using a SS carabiner that has closed loop on one end. see pic

Post subject: Re: Warning: if you try sliding hook you will never go back.

Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 6:52 pm

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TomW wrote:

H53Driver wrote:

Easy to retrofit a harness with a slider. Get appropriate line and tie it off (bowline knot) to opposite sides of your harness with enough slack. Get a sufficiently large screw pin shackle which will slide along the line. Total cost...less than $10. Why spend more if you just want to try it.

Check- did this- sawed off the hook on a spreaderbar and it works good- but would like to find a smoother slider- Mine " sticks" a little and i have to give it a nudge by twisting body. I´m using a SS carabiner that has closed loop on one end. see pic

Its very easy to stick a screwdriver through it and lever that eye out.

Another way is to connect part of the Q/R to the harness if you are not going to unhook.

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